Clapboard



UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

ANTUS A. NVILDER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CLAPBOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,803, dated January 10, 1860.

To all 'whom it may concern: and to make a surface by so rounding or 15' Be it known that I, ANTUs A. VVILDER, of beveling the edges, that the building covthe city of Detroit, county of Wayne and ered by this siding, clapboards, or ceiling State of Michigan, have invented a new shall be completely washed by the rain, as

D' 5 and Improved Clapboard, and do hereby will not be done by square edged siding.

' declare that the following isa full and What I claim as my invention and desire 2G exact description thereof, reference being to secure by Letters Patent is had to the accompanying drawings and to The rounding or beveling the lower edge the lettere of reference marked thereon. of clapboards, siding or ceiling for the pur- A 10 The nature of my invention Consists in poses herein set forth.

rounding or bevelin the lower outside cor- ANTUS A. WILDER. ner of clapboards, si ing or ceiling as shown Nitnessesz at, a, Fig. 1. I. D. XVILDER,

The object is to facilitate the painting E. D. WALTERS. 

